IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scituate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019CT007024
  • User Pedon ID: S2019CT007024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0580
  • User Project ID: 201912TOL002_done
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A - CAES Forest Plot Mapping Update and Sampling - Phase 1
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.6228333
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5754444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Meshomasic State Forest CAES Old Series Plots Reeves Plot
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT007—Middlesex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Parizek, Vega, Surabian, Isleib
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scituate
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Humudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 31 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2019
  • Classifier - Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: skeletal coarse-loamy lodgment till over skeletal sandy and loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field on Glaciated upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Isleib, Vega , Parizek

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Isleib, Surabian, Vega, Parizek
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    62 - 96

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—26

    26—62

    62—

    62—96

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    12

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    297

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    286

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    Oa—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03342; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; very cobbly very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03343; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 26 centimeters (5.9 to 10.2 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03344; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—26 to 45 centimeters (10.2 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03345; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—45 to 62 centimeters (17.7 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03346; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd1—62 to 86 centimeters (24.4 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very cobbly very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent fine prominent manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium prominent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 30 percent medium prominent masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03347; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Pockets of sandy loam and loamy sand textures within the horizon.
    Cd2—86 to 96 centimeters (33.9 to 37.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine prominent manganese masses throughout and 20 percent medium prominent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 19N03348; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Pockets of sandy loam and loamy sand textures within the horizon.